White Cube has announced its representation of the acclaimed artist and curator Howardena Pindell. The blue-chip gallery, which now represents the artist in Europe and Asia, will present her first solo exhibition in Asia at White Cube Hong Kong in November. Pindell will continue to be represented in the U.S. by her longtime gallery Garth Greenan, which will also mount a solo exhibition for the artist in November.
Born in 1943 in Philadelphia, Pindell worked as a curator at the Museum of Modern Art between 1967 and 1979 and co-founded A.I.R. Gallery, the first non-profit cooperative gallery for women artists in the U.S., in 1972. Meanwhile, her art career, spanning over five decades, comprises painting, collage, drawing, and film that has grappled with personal and politically charged issues, such as racism, gender inequality, the Vietnam War, and the AIDS crisis.
In the 1970s, Pindell developed her signature spray-painting technique, in which she sprayed over templates made from punched-out cardstock or watercolor paper to create layered, textured dot patterns on canvas. This method gives her artworks a pointillist effect. At Art Basel next month, White Cube’s booth will feature a new spray-painted work from Pindell, Tesseract #16 (2024).
Among her most famous works are those in her “Autobiography” series, spanning from 1980 to 2005. Pindell began making these mixed-media works, which feature postcards and archival photographs, in the aftermath of a severe car accident in 1979 to reflect on her experiences and identity while grappling with memory loss.
Pindell’s work has been the subject of major solo exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the Studio Museum in Harlem in New York, among others.
